WPG Artist Sally Brucker, monotypes and serigraphs

Sally Brucker

About the Artist

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Sally Brucker

Liminal Dreams -- Drummers

Liminal Dream — Drummers

2003
mixed media monotype
on Arches 88
27 x 22 in. (image)
$800 (unframed)
$1,000 (framed)

Artist Statement: I discovered the term ‘liminal’ a few years ago and was delighted to learn that it means ‘to be just on the edge of awareness’. My previous exhibitions “Dream Maps’ and ‘Memory Maps’ dealt with the traces of images or image fragments we hold, or are about to lose to the night or our past. As an art therapist, I find this state of mind an intriguing prelude to creative and psychological awareness.

Monoprints, because they are largely experimental and thus surprising, lend themselves well to exploring this concept. “Liminal dreams’ are intended to be suggestive of those states of mind that might ultimately lead us to moments of greater understanding or awareness. They are ephemeral, like the images a photographer glimpses through the lens and must immediately ‘snap’; or else are gone. Once glimpsed, chaos gives way to new connections and understandings

The works shown here are mainly experimental; single and multi-layered monotypes and seriagraphs, overlaid with oil pastels and colored pencils.

Some of this work was created in London during my recent sabbatical year.

Sally Brucker, an art therapist, clinical social worker and artist, has been exhibiting her work in the U.S. and abroad for over 20 years. She is an experimental printmaker, preferring the immediacy of monoprints which she then overlays and reworks into her final image. Her work explores dream images and the interior landscape. It is most closely related to the art of the imagination and magical realism. Color plays an important role in Brucker’s work as it impacts on our senses and perceptions. Her most recent work, “Liminal Dreams” is both abstract and semi-figurative and recalls the moods and feelings of the dream-state.